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Figure skating jumps are identified by the way the skater takes off the ice. Here are simple ways to tell them apart, using layman-friendly terms. 

There are 6 different types of jumps (in order of base value): Toe loop (T), Salchow (S), Loop (Lo), Flip (F), Lutz (Lz), Axel (A). 

Since Yuzuru rotates anti-clockwise in the air, these examples are for anti-clockwise jumps. For clock-wise jumpers, the left and right would reversed.

Notes:

No.1: GOE +2.71 (*) No.2: GOE +2.00 (**) No.3: GOE +2.14 (**) No.4: Single is the new quad No.5: “Sure I messed up but it doesn’t matter because I’m Yuzuru Hanyu” No.6: “I did a #yoloaxel out of an Ina Bauer the other week, how hard can it be to do one out of a hydroblade? ‘kay, turned out it’s pretty hard” No.7: “Watch me do this impossible thing and watch me sulk when it fails”

(*) Judges were drunk (**) Judges were hungover from fundraising parties for new prescription glasses

Yuzuru at World Championships 2017

No-commentary video of SP above;  post-SP interview with Eng subs below.

No-commentary video of Free Skate:

Japanese commentary (parts of FP) + interview with Eng subs: 

Thanks to 6277 for the subbed videos with proper credit to Sophie Moroi for her translation, and with her permission too.  (I saw videos in Youtube that used Sophie’s translation with no permission, and even worse, with no credit to her whatsoever!)   

And I love no-commentary videos… thanks to siberia1982 for the SP and FP ones! 

Victory Ceremony:  I was watching the competition on live stream and praying so hard during ‘Hope&Legacy’.  When he finished his perfect FP, tears just streamed down my face.  YOU DID IT, YUZU!!!!  Then, after the last skater’s turn, when it was confirmed that Yuzu got the gold, I started crying again.  And I could not stop crying throughout the medal ceremony!  I was watching it on live stream and I kept wiping my eyes so that I could see clearly!   Ahhhhhh……… finally, though all those ups and downs of the past 2+ years, through all the pain and heartache, finally!!! he got the reward that he worked so hard for.  You really deserve that gold medal and all the happiness in the world, Yuzuru!!!

Gala exhibition, the beautiful Swan Prince in ‘Notte Stellata’: 

(much thanks to respective video uploaders)  

4Lo 4S 3F // 4S+3T 4T 3A+2T 3A+1Lo+3S 3Lz

Yuzuru Hanyu x Requiem of Heaven and Earth (World Championships 2016 Exhibition)

Okay, here we go:

The “That was awesome!”-type. Usually used when feeling a great amount of joy and amazement.

       2.  The “You rock! Keep going!”-type. Often seen when people feel the              urge to cheer on performers they’d like to continue performing and/or                as a sign of support.

      3. The “I’ve no idea what I’m doing but I don’t want to be rude”-type.            Executed when a person did miss the reason for cheering but still desires          to be polite.

      4. … and then there is Yuzuru Hanyu…

every time i pulled up a google doc and tried to write a proper preview for 4CC, a low, agonized scream started building in my lungs, so at some point i just gave up and decided to write whatever the fuck popped into my head. will there be a ladies’ preview? a pairs and ice dance preview? if i haven’t devolved into incoherent keysmashing by then (and if the skaters are even still around and not WITHDRAWN WITH INJURIES), we’ll see. (lbr, the most important part of pairs is sui/han anyway.)

in case you didn’t know, the four continents championships, aka. the four continents CHENpionships, aka. 4CC, aka. 4ContsFigure because the ISU can’t come up with decent hashtags to save their lives, is a competition for all non-european skaters that will take place this year in gangneung, south korea, from feb. 14-19. sometimes skaters like to blow off 4CC but since it will take place in the 2018 olympic arena (jesus fuck can you believe it’s barely a year away) most top skaters decided to go this year in order to test out the rink. so we’re in for some p r e t t y interesting stuff next week. (read: this entry list makes me want to die. if you were around for the european championships - the top 5-6 men at 4CC can probably outscore the european silver medalist.)

here are the full entries. aight, let’s go.

Part I (Jump Identification)  ||  Part II (Jump Combinations)  ||  Part III (Spin Identification)

Figure skating jumps are identified by the way the skater takes off the ice. Here are simple ways to tell them apart, using layman-friendly terms. 

There are 6 different types of jumps (in order of base value): Toe loop (T), Salchow (S), Loop (Lo), Flip (F), Lutz (Lz), Axel (A). 

Since Yuzuru rotates anti-clockwise in the air, these examples are for anti-clockwise jumps. For clock-wise jumpers, the left and right would reversed.